CNN host Candy Crowley asked whether we’re safer now than we were a year or two ago. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said, “I don’t think so. I think terrorism is up worldwide. I think statistics indicate that. Fatalities are way up. The numbers are way up.
“There are new bombs, very big bombs, trucks being reinforced for those bombs. There are bombs that go through magnetometers. The bomb maker is still alive. There are more groups than ever. And there is huge malevolence out there.”
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) chimed in, “So the pressures on our intelligence services to get it right, to prevent an attack are enormous…. Al Queda, as we knew it before, is metastasizing into something different. More groups than we’ve had before, meaning more groups that operated independently of Al Queda, have joined Al Queda around the world. All of them have at least some aspiration to commit an act of violence against the United States or against western targets around the world.
“They’ve now switched to this notion that maybe smaller events are okay.… That makes it exponentially harder for our intelligence services to stop an event like that from happening.”
The administration has maintained that we are safer so a fellow Democrat seeing it the other way might be concerning and revealing.
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Posted on December 1, 2013 by mikes888
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